Ever since Lupita Nyong’o was cast in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in June 2014, mystery has swirled around who or what the Oscar winner would play — particularly because the all CGI-character would be rendered via performance capture.

“Her history is that she was a pirate for a long time,” he told EW’s Anthony Breznican. “She’s lived over a thousand years. She’s had this watering hole for about a century, and it’s like another bar that you’d find in a corner of the 'Star Wars' universe.”

Nyong'o used performance-capture technology to play the character, as captured in this Vanity Fair video.

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Abrams bills Maz as a wise, ancient presence — a guide for the desert scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) that may be this film’s answer to Yoda.

Her voiceover in the most recent trailer for the movie hitting theaters also provides an important clue:

“I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people. I see your eyes. I know your eyes,” Maz tells Rey.

Lupita Nyongo's character, Maz Kanata, has been revealed to be in the very center of the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ poster (above BB-8 and next to R2D2.)

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Those goggles that obscure the alien’s eyes are an important part of the story, Abrams told EW.

“As an actor for films, your eyes are a lot of the way you communicate anyway,” said Nyong’o, who was trained in the art of performance capture technology by castmate Andy Serkis.

“So it was definitely a gift to have that be the means to her magic as a motion-capture character.”